It was around noon and we were finally heading out to look for the confluence. We had planned to start the trip very early that day, but as it always happens, for one reason or another we took off a lot later. We originally had agreed on doing the trip the next weekend, but on Friday at the last minute we decided to do it that Saturday.

We are members of a local off-road club (Explora 4x4) and when we found out about the project we were immediately hooked, and decided to contribute looking for the confluence closest to our home city, Cd. Juarez. Besides, it was the perfect excuse to go and look for some adventure, which is what we always do, but this time with an additional purpose.

It took us around one hour and half going southeast through the Juarez-Porvenir highway to reach Praxedes G. Guerrero, which is the town where, according to the map, we were supposed to make a right turn to the south through a road that would take us close to the confluence point. We were told at a gas station that we had passed that road, so we drove back a little and made the turn to take what was a paved road for the first two miles or so and that turned into a fairly used dirt road. Doing some high speed rally style off-roading we passed through dry creeks, cattle guards, tricky curves, and due to recent rain some mud pits that made the road a very interesting one.

About two hours later we got to a rancho that the GPS marked as being about 800 feet from the confluence point. There we met Don Hipolito, who informed us the name of the place was ‘Rancho San Antonio’. We briefly explained him the purpose of our visit and without understanding much of what we were saying, he allowed us to enter the property. We took some pictures of us with him and his dog “Meche” and started the search driving the Jeeps through a “road” between the bushes that seemed to disappear occasionally.

It wasn’t so hard for us to find the spot, which was in a plain between the mesquites. The landscape was semi-desertic and the mesquites were most of the existing vegetation. We didn’t get to see any animal, but most probably the fauna consisted of hares, coyotes, and rattlesnakes. It was 2:53 in the afternoon and we were in an elevation of 4493 feet asl.

We were there for approximately and hour taking the necessary pictures and fixing a tire of one of the vehicles that was losing pressure. When we started the way back we realized that a fuel line in one of the Jeeps was leaking, probably stung by one of the sharp mesquite thorns, so we had to stop for a while and fix it. We said good-bye to Don Hipolito and headed back home. When we were about to reach the highway, one of the vehicles ran out of gas, and that made us lose a little more time. Since we are used to having these small incidents the optimism didn’t change. We finally got home at around 8 pm, somewhat tired and hungry, but happy for having completed our objective.

In general, our visit to the confluence point was relatively easy, mainly because it is located in a land that has good ways of access. We have plans to visit other confluences close to our city, so we can contribute for our state being one of the first states with all of its confluences visited, even when it is the largest and with the greatest number of confluences points (23) in the country.